Marijuana

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Len Goodman poses among his marijuana plants near Santa Fe, New Mexico on Thursday, July 15, 2010. He is one of just 11 growers approved by New Mexico to produce pot for all of the state's 2,000 registered medical marijuana patients, and his customers routinely exhaust his supply.

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Drew Brown, a vice president at Abundant Healing store (left), hands over a check to one of his marijuana suppliers on April 19, 2010 in Fort Collins, Colorado. Abundant Healing is one of Colorado's many legal marijuana dispensaries, which sells marijuana to customers with a state-issued medical marijuana card.

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Douglas Hiatt throws up his arms as he talks about a signature campaign for an initiative to legalize marijuana for adults falling short Thursday, July 1, 2010, in Seattle, Washington. Hiatt, one of the campaign's leaders, said that the effort to get Initiative 1068 on the ballot has fallen short by about 40,000-50,000 signatures of about 241,000 required. Initiative 1068 would have removed all state penalties for marijuana possession, cultivation, use and sale.

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A police officer stands guard during a drug destruction in Panama City, Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. According to officials, some 4.7 tons of cocaine, marijuana and heroin seized by the police in different nationwide operations during the last month, were incinerated.

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A man smokes marijuana from a pipe during the International Day for the Legalization of Marijuana in Medellin, Antioquia Department, Colombia on May 8, 2010.

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Medical marijuana plants are pictured as they dry in the Los Angeles area on June 1, 2010. Some 440 medical marijuana dispensaries across Los Angeles were under orders to close on June 7, 2010, nearly five months after city officials, worried that the shops were mushrooming out of control, voted to shut most of them down.

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Dani Geen holds up 1.5 gram "care packages" of medical marijuana at the Harborside Health Center in Oakland, California on Aug. 3, 2010, where, until recently, the center had a program that gave out free weekly "care packages" to about 600 patients on unemployment or pensions.

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Marijuana is harvested in Davenport, California on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010.

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Nicholas Pouch uses a glass pipe to smoke medical marijuana Friday, May 21, 2010, in his glass-blowing shop in Matlock, Washington. Pouch's use of marijuana is legal under state laws, but it has been a factor in his ongoing child-custody battle with the mother of his two sons.

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Tim Blakeley, manager of Sunset Junction medical marijuana dispensary, shows a marijuana plant bud under a magnifying glass, reflecting the dispensary's overhead lights, on May 11, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.